At the Burnt Ash Road end of Holme Lacey Road, set back from the road, is a London Stock brick building which has been largely covered by the signage of its current owners – Travis Perkins. While the building itself has been much extended and altered, at its core is a 1870s building that started as Lee Public Halls – briefly home to variety, light entertainment and numerous Victorian Societies and later, as the title suggests, put to a variety of other uses.
The 'proprietor' and no doubt builder of the Lee Public Halls was John Pound – builder of much of Burnt Ash, Grove Park and bits of Blackheath along with a quartet of the area's pubs. There were two linked brick buildings one holding up to 1000 the other 400 which were 'suitable for concerts and public meetings', they were probably built around 1876. The original site included a frontage onto Burnt Ash Hill, now largely occupied by Bellamy's Citroën dealership.
The Victorians liked their Societies and needed venues for them – Blackheath had the Concert Halls, built by William Webster's firm of builders, and the Arts Club; the northern part of Lee had the Lee Working Men's Institution on Old Road (which was nothing of the sort and will be covered in a later post), but South Lee had nothing equivalent in the way of halls for Societies and entertainment. Lee Public Halls, along with the Station, the shops and the pubs was probably part of the package that Pound was using to sell the homes he was building.
Another early benefit was by the Lee Literary and Musical Society who gave a musical recital in aid of Lee Crèche, an organisation which provided for 'poor children' in the absence of their mothers during working hours (8 am to 9 pm). The Hall was filled and the 'audience good' (2).
During the day the Halls were regularly used as an auction hall for furniture (3). There was an attempt to set up a school there in 1879, although this doesn't appear to have come to fruition (4).
Political meetings were held there from early in its life, the first recorded one being a large one concerning flooding in the Quaggy and Ravensbourne catchments in May 1878 – an early incarnation of the Quaggy Waterways Action Group, perhaps (5). It noted that 2000 homes had been flooded in the area in April 1878 and asked the Metropolitan Board of Works to do something about it.
Penny Readings were regular fayre; they seemed to follow the standard, well established form that had been in place for 20 years consisting of readings and other performances, usually by local people. While when they were introduced the charge was as the name implied, by the time they reached Lee, the charges were 2/- (10p) for the reserved seats and 6d (2.5p) for unreserved seats (6). The Penny Readings were popular entertainment with, in the early years, 800 often present (7).
The 1880 version saw apparent favourites of Queen Victoria, the Royal Hand-Bell Ringers and Glee Singers perform. The tickets were only slightly more expensive than the Penny Readings (9).
The local Societies regularly used the Halls as a venue – a regular was South Lee and Burnt Ash Dahlia Society which held annual competitions there (12).
As noted above, benefit concerts and amateur dramatics were a staple fayre at the Halls – an early one in May 1878 was a fundraiser for the building of St Mildred's – there was a poor turnout due to the 'inclement weather' (13). By the autumn of the following year there were fortnightly concerts and entertainments raising funds to build the church (14) and pay for the organ – there was a concert with piano, several violins and vocalists in November 1879 (15).
Indirectly, the funding of benefit concerts for St Mildred's was probably one of the things that contributed to the Halls demise as a venue. The building of churches and other halls locally will have reduced the revenue stream and it is noticeable from the early 1880s that local press coverage of events there diminished considerably.
By mid-1885 the building had been put to a new use – an advertisement in the Kentish Mercury in July announced that 'The Public Hall Sanitary Steam Laundry' was now in operation. A smaller advert in the same edition 'Ladies desiring the van to call may send post card to the Manageress' and could also come and have a look at the new machinery (16).
These were days before washing machines and, in middle class Lee, it would not be expected that the women (and certainly not the men….) of the households would be undertaking domestic drudgery of this type. As we saw in the first of the posts on Ardmere Road, taking in laundry for wealthier neighbours was commonplace. A step up from this were laundries – a little later local suffragette Clara Lambert came from a family that had set up a laundry and worked in it herself for many years.
Experienced folder wanted (tall preferred) (20).
There were several similar adverts over the next few months, so perhaps surprisingly, the laundry remained and the frontage onto Burnt Ash remained undeveloped (22).
By 1905, it appears that a small portion of the frontage was let to decorators – Edmund James Tagg, but the Public Halls Steam Laundry, then under the control of W P Cowan remained as having an address with a frontage onto Burnt Ash Hill.
By 1941 Scudamore's were using part of the site of the laundry, whether this marked a slight scaling back of operations isn't clear. By 1953 the 'Public Halls' had been dropped from the name – it was now known as 'Supreme Laundry.' The last mention of the laundry was in 1962, when Lee Public Halls name had been restored. In 1963, the Halls were home to South London Engineering and Sheet Metal – they seem to have diversified into electrical equipment and air conditioning and were still there in the late 1980s when the last local Kelly's Directories seem to have been published – replaced over time by Yellow Pages, Thompsons and the Internet.
As for Scudamores, they remained on the site until they went bankrupt in 1966; for a few years another building contractor – M E Lee seem to have used part of the site but they had gone by the mid-1970s. The current occupants are Travis Perkins and while the overall impression is of a builders supply yard, bits of the original building can still be glimpsed and it is still just about possible to imagine the carriages drawing up at 9:45 for the wealthy suburban citizens of Lee having seen the Royal Handbell Ringers and Glee Singers in February 1880 (24).
The non-hyperlinked references to Directories are from the Blackheath, Greenwich and Lee Kelly's Directories (pre-World War 2), the later ones are from the Kelly's London Directories. Both were accessed via the always helpful, and under resourced, Lewisham Archives.
This entry was posted in Lewisham History and tagged Holme Lacey Road, John Pound, Lee Public Halls, Lee Public Halls Steam Laundry, Northbrook Cricket Club on October 4, 2018 by Paul B.


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Hello! It's been a little while since my last newsletter went out. I've been working on The Book. Let's jump into it.
First off, an update on The Book: it's coming along nicely. I'm about 80% of the way there, and is now by far the longest thing that I've written, ever. I'm happy with the progress I'm making, although I've been slowed down by school and daycare closures this past week.
Stuff I've written about lately? The role that internet forums played, how Thanksgiving was the original home for Trick or Treating, and the rise of the Mandalorian Mercs, and quite a bit more.
But, I've got a little under a month left before this is due, and between it and news writing for Tor, my brainpower is being used up. I'm going to try and get this newsletter out as I have been, but don't expect anything too serious until at least mid-March.
The work has put me into a bit of a self-imposed exile, which is good and bad. I've muted most everyone on social media, which has been extremely useful to get work done. But it also comes at a time where I feel as though I've been ghosted by a whole bunch of friends, locally and elsewhere. Texts and email goes unanswered, and it's just frustrating. Fortunately, this project has been a good distraction.
I do want to talk about something that I've been meaning to chat about for a while: The Rise of Skywalker. I thought about doing a straight-up review, but that moment's sort of passed. I saw it three times in theaters and generally enjoyed it. But there are a couple of moments that I specifically want to call out that reinforce my general opinion of J.J. Abrams: he's not really a good filmmaker.
First, some context, and spoilers, obvs.
When Disney/Lucasfilm announced Abrams as the director for the rebooted series, it didn't really come as any surprise. He's been Hollywood's wonderkid for years now, helped reboot Star Trek, and has had a deep sense of nostalgia ingrained in his filmmaking: Mission: Impossible III was a solid action flick (and a reboot), while Super 8 was a throwback-slash-love letter to Steven Spielberg. Disney had a tough job to do when it brought back Star Wars: it had to reassure fans that it knew what they wanted, and it didn't want to deviate too far from that nostalgia and look / feel of the world. Abrams delivered that with TFA: a film that somewhat remade A New Hope and tee'ed up a roadmap for more films.
Then Rian Johnson directed The Last Jedi — an excellent film and departure from expectations that really should have set the franchise on a new direction. It attracted considerable ire from some parts of the Star Wars community, some with legitimate irritations about its structure and plot, others who descended into sexist and racist garbage because they don't feel that women and characters of color should have a prominent role in the franchise. When Colin Trevorrow dropped out from Episode IX, Disney brought Abrams back in. The Rise of Skywalker does bring about an end to the saga in a solid way, considering the piecemeal fashion that the entire series has come together. Abrams had to not only bring about an end to the sequels, but give a good ending to the prequel AND original trilogy AND characters AND so forth.
The problem with ROS is that because Abrams is nostalgic and loves the material, he never really pulls any risky punches. TFA brings in a lot of very familiar tropes — which is fine, considering that Disney needed the best possible launchpad to kick off a new franchise — but ROS does the same thing: there's nothing risky or dangerous about the film. There's plenty of action and excitement, but it's … kind of predictable at points.
One thing that bothered me most of all is that there's no risk of danger to most of the characters, save for Snap Wexley during the final battle. Chewie is seen loaded into a First Order ship, which Rey then destroys by accident. Later, C-3P0 gets some knowledge that they can only get with a hard reset. In both instances, the characters survive: Chewie was loaded onto a different ship, while C-3P0 just gets backed up. Both resurrections undercut the character's peril. Rey would have had a much harsher lesson when she got mad, and C-3P0's sacrifice would have upped the ante for everyone involved. Carrie Fisher's real-world death felt like it was handled a bit better, because that was a pretty immovable part of the production, and they had to build around it a bit. But in this instance: Leia's death felt like it had importance: it helped to redeem Kylo / Ben Solo to get him to help save the day at the end — where he then dies.
Another element that soured really quickly was how the film reduced Kelly Marie Tran's role as Rose Tico, a pivotal character from TLJ. She's barely seen in the film, and while the filmmakers say that that's because she had more screen time with Carrie Fisher's recycled footage and that technical difficulties cut her out, it looks very much like Lucasfilm capitulating to the racist garbage fans who chased her off of social media a couple of years ago. It's not a good look.
The McGuffin of a long-lost artifact that leads to a hidden treasure, but only if it's used in the right spot at the right time. It worked for Indiana Jones. It doesn't work when you have a decaying structure. It's even worse when your story relies on TWO such McGuffins.
But most of all, after thinking about this for a while, I think what I resent the most about The Rise of Skywalker is that it makes The Last Jedi feel like a minor footnote in the larger franchise. I saw someone describe TFA as Episode 7, TLJ as Episode 7.5, and ROS as Episodes 8 and 9. I think that's an accurate way to look at them, and it's illuminating (and frustrating) to see how piecemeal the franchise was put together. Disney's Marvel franchise plotted out a huge arc over a ton of films: they had at least something of an end-goal in mind. With Star Wars, it looks as though they were just building it piece by piece, hoping that they would get a good conclusion out of it.
As a result, Rise of Skywalker feels very much like it's a film that's filling two roles: J.J. Abram's original idea for how the trilogy should have played out, while The Last Jedi makes some solid, fundamental comments about the nature of the Jedi Order, power, fallibility, and so forth. But TLJ's messages are essentially contained to one film, and as such, it acts as a coda for TLJ. Walking out of the film in 2017, I felt like the movie should have been the finale: it was a little too out there, and it would have set up the next iteration on a solid footing: a demonstration that whatever comes next would be different. Instead, Abrams' film shows that Disney / Lucasfilm are willing to play it safe, something constructed with plenty of input from Marketing, rather than focusing on a story that inspires wonder and awe, like those originals did years ago. Moreover, the big revelations, like Rey is really Palpatine's granddaughter, the return of Palpatine himself, and the whole point of the First Order / Final Order really went unsupported — something that really should have been baked into the story structure of the franchise from the start. But Abrams really isn't a director that's interested in longer-term payoff: his body of work is characterized by the desire to spring mysteries on the audience and let them squabble about it while they wait for the next installment. That makes for a compelling in-the-moment scene, but long-term, I don't think that it'll be as interesting.
That all said, there were parts that I liked. Leia was handled well, I liked overarching story of Ben Solo falling to the dark side and finding redemption (although again, this should have been supported better?), the final scene, and the sheer kinetic energy. I suspect that there's a 3 or so hour version of this kicking around somewhere, because there's a lot in there, and the whole thing feels like it would be better if it were allowed to breathe a little. Rey and Kylo's battle, where they're in two different locations — that's probably the most fascinating part of the film, visually and thematically.
Talking with someone this morning about it, I wish that Disney took on a similar approach to that of HBO's take on Watchmen or even Rogue One: a wonderfully constructed story that takes cues from the original story's intent and building blocks, and tells a related, but different story set in the same world. For the time being, it looks as though we're going to get a bit of a pause on new Star Wars films for the time being, which is good. We don't need 2-3 a year, and I'd rather LFL uses the time to get something good and interesting than another rehash of what we've already seen.
Adam Savage Book Club. Adam Savage, of Mythbusters fame, has launched a book club. The first book is Matt Parker's Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World. Should be interesting to see what they pick moving forward.
February Books. Over on Polygon, I've rounded up 19 new SF/F novels to check out coming out in the coming weeks.
FicInt Op-Ed. Max Brooks has an interesting entry in The New York Times' Op-Ed from the Future series, a chilly prospect about the future of privatized warfare. This one might be science fiction, but it gets to the heart of the civilian-military divide here in the US.
Future of Star Wars. In light of my rant of Rise of Skywalker, I interviewed a bunch of science fiction authors to see what they'd like to see out of the franchise moving forward. Lots of votes for The Mandalorian and less Jedi.
Gibson Interview. My friend Eliot Peper interviewed William Gibson about his new book Agency.
Jemisin Profile. N.K. Jemisin has a new book coming out next month, The City We Became, which looks fantastic. The PR machine is spinning up for it, and The New Yorker has a fantastic profile of her and her work. I've long wondered about Jemisin's story — I hadn't come across many details about her life, and this is a pretty interesting biography.
Lotta Star Wars. Katherine Clarke at The Wall Street Journal has a really neat article about a mansion that's for sale in LA. It can be yours for $26.5 million, and it comes with a really elaborate Star Wars-themed basement. The owner clearly dumped a lot of money into it, and there are dozens of helmets, costumes, and replica props all displayed in a really cool way.
NObi-Wan Kenobi, ammirite? Disney is apparently going back to the drawing board for its Obi-Wan streaming series. Hopefully it's nothing too serious, but Lucasfilm probably doesn't need a whole lot of bumps in the road. On the plus side, we have a new season of Clone Wars to look forward to in February.
Physical Discs. Veronica Walsingham has a neat Op-Ed from the Future over on The New York Times: We Should Have Bought DVDs, about the flood of streaming services. It's a good read, arguing that physical media is probably a better investment, especially in the future. It's a habit that I've held onto for years: I still pick up movies on Blu-ray, because you never know when they'll vanish from a streaming service. Coincidentally, I just dropped Apple TV Plus after finishing The Morning Show. I'll pick that back up when For All Mankind comes back, and when Foundation premieres. (I'll see about Amazing Stories when it premieres in March.)
RIP Christopher Tolkien. J.R.R. Tolkien's son and guardian of his literary estate Christopher passed away on January 16th. I'll admit I haven't read a lot of his work resurrecting his father's unpublished works, but he did a pretty incredible job keeping the world alive.
Rise of Skywalker and the SWEU. James Whitbrook has an interesting piece up at io9 about the Rise of Skywalker's reception and some of the ridiculousness of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. I agree with it entirely, and it sort of goes to why I've been rolling my eyes at some of the negative reviews. I don't think the film is terrible (I still need to write down my thoughts), and living through the SWEU certainly brings plenty of dumb ideas that churned up over the years.
Threshold in Space. Mary Robinette Kowal has an excellent essay up in The New York Times about Christina Koch, the astronaut who just broke the record for longest duration in space for a woman. But, according to her, you should know her for more than just that milestone.
I've finished a couple of books off of my to-read list, and I've been picking away at others. I finished Charles Yu's fantastic Interior Chinatown over the weekend, which was delightfully meta. Come for the commentary on Asian representation in television, stay for the big question/discussion on what it means to be an American. I also just finished Finna by Nino Cipri, which was a fun, short little read.
I'm focusing on Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, which I'm enjoying, and my wife and I are almost done with Daniel Suarez's Delta-V, which is what I'd call a fun beach read. I'm also picking up some shorter reads and will test them out: Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey, Made Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky, To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers, and Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi. I loved Gailey's Magic for Liars, but wasn't a huge fan of their American Hippo books. I really like Tchaikovsky and Chambers' books, and the premise of Onyebuchi's book looks fascinating.
Finally, doing some comfort reading: Karen Traviss's Hard Contact, the first of her Republic Commando novels. I'm working up a piece about the humanity of Clone Troopers, and damn, this book holds up nicely.
That's all for now. I'll try and put together another newsletter shortly, but I'd say don't expect something for another month or so.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa got a taste of what South African commuters regularly experience on Monday. South Africans watched video clips showing him stuck on a Pretoria Metrorail train for several hours. "We are going to take steps to fix the situation," promised the president in a video shot by ENCA.
The breakdown of commuter train services across the country is a direct consequence of the massive looting of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) by past CEOs and boards, especially Lucky Montana. It epitomised state capture.
The media has reported this grand-scale theft extensively, as well as the daily difficulties that commuters experience (see, for example, our coverage of the #PRASALeaks). Activist groups like #UniteBehind, the Rail Commuters Action Group and Public Transport Voice have for years been drawing attention to the collapse of Metrorail.
Declare a disaster and appoint a disaster management team to assist the PRASA board and management.
Appoint a top-quality permanent board which appoints permanent staff, based on merit and experience.
Urge the board to extend rail tickets for commuters by a month to acknowledge that they have been unfairly treated and to encourage them to return to using the trains.
There will also need to be further prosecutions of the people who destroyed PRASA.


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Q: SQL Server 2005-2008 Compatibility Check A few databases were recently migrated from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008, and I have to check if all the stored procedures, and triggers still work well. With 'checking', I mean that I should guarantee that they are compilable and executable.
There are many stored procedures and triggers to check. To do it manually, I would need maybe 1 month. So, I want to take another approach.
What kind of checking procedure would you recommend me, so that I can say surely that the stored procedures and triggers will also work in SQL Server 2008?
Thanks

A: Is the 2005 instance still your production instance? If so, you could use a server side trace to capture a workload and replay it on the 2008 instance. You should try to capture your normal workloads. You have to decided what is normal in your system. This wouldn't guarantee that all stored procs will work, but you day to day activity should be fine.
As far as compatibility levels please review the BOL link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510680.aspx

A: Generally speaking, if you just reapply of the stored procedures and no errors show up, you should be good to go (based on my experience from migrating 2 databases (2000->2005) (2005->2008). On a side note, this is why we started writing unit tests for our database code to handle problems like these.

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From to photos to friends and birthdays to favourite movies we put so much of our personal information on Facebook. But our passwords keep it all safe, right? Wrong. There was recently a massive leak on the social network where millions and millions of people had their personal information posted across the web. CEO of ESET, Carey van Vlaanderen tells us how to keep our personal details safe.


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Flicka i kasern is a 1955 Swedish drama film directed by Börje Larsson.

Cast
 Sonja Stjernquist as Eva Seman
 Egon Larsson as Staffan Torell
 Sten Gester as Allan Bergsten
 Åke Söderblom as Fredrik Berg
 Hjördis Petterson as Olga
 Mary Rapp as Beda
 Siv Ericks as Edith
 Torsten Lilliecrona as Corporal
 Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt as Police Commissioner
 Harry Ahlin as Ernst Jansson
 Ragnar Arvedson as Colonel
 Hans Strååt as Captain

References

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1955 films
1955 drama films
Swedish drama films
1950s Swedish-language films
Films directed by Börje Larsson
Swedish black-and-white films
1950s Swedish films

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Miyanishi Noa's third photo session took place on July 22, 2001, in Tetsugakudou Kouen in Nakano. It was a very hot and sunny day.
Most of the photo session was done indoors, at a traditional Japanese house, or in the shade outdoors.
Noa's first outfit was a blue yukata, and she wore that most of the day. We took photos of Noa inside the house, near a small waterfall/creek, and near a wooden gate.
Noa's second outfit was a red and white checkered shirt and matching skirt. We took photos of Noa in the outdoors (in the sun).
I took 5 rolls (36) of Fuji Provia 100 (positives), and 4 rolls (36) of Konica Impressa 50. Big mistake, as it was too dark for the Impressa.
Although there were a lot of blurry pics, my composition is getting much better than before.


Back in Spring, we revealed that Naked Ladies had been voted in to the range by our Customer Beer Team. We're delighted to let you know that this delicious golden ale from Twickenham Fine Ales has arrived – it's now available nationally across all stores and online here.
Our Customer Beer Team was put in place during our Oktoberfest event last Autumn. This was Majestic's first-ever national beer event – a fantastic way for us to celebrate Real Ale and Craft Beer! All our stores sourced local beers for our customers to try in store, then they cast their vote on their favourites. From those, we short-listed down to eight favourites from the nation, and picked 200 customers to join our Beer Team. We sent these beer-loving customers a mixed case of the eight beers and they voted on which should join Majestic's range.
The Beer Team's champion – Naked Ladies – is from Twickenham Fine Ales, London's oldest micro-brewery. Using hops from around the world and only the purest of ingredients, Twickenham Fine Ales produces a great range of well hopped, award winning beers. Why the name? Naked Ladies takes its name from the statues in York House gardens in Twickenham, which are known locally as the Naked Ladies.
It's a glorious golden ale flavoured with hops from England, Slovenia and America, which gives it a wonderful citrus edge and long bitter finish.
Good work Beer Team, cheers!


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Research provides foundation for chloride mitigation efforts
Photo: David Gonzalez, MnDOT The accumulation of chloride in our waters has become a widespread concern. In a recent U of M study, researchers measured the transport and accumulation of chloride from road deicers in a metro-area watershed. The findings revealed a greater infiltration of chlorides into soil and subsurface waters than was previously assumed.
"The results of this foundational research provide us with knowledge we did not have before," says William Herb, a research associate with the U of M's St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and the study's principal investigator. "It will help investigators and policymakers explore ways to capture chlorides and mitigate their damaging environmental effects."
Road salt (sodium chloride) is used in most states that experience snow and ice, with growing impact. For example, chloride levels in some lakes and streams in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metro area exceed state and federal water quality standards, and a recent study showed that levels in more than one-quarter of shallow groundwater wells in the metro were above drinking-water taste standards.
"This is a real concern because even in low concentrations, chloride can be lethal to sensitive plants and some aquatic species, and many of our lakes, wetlands, and streams show acute or chronic levels of chloride," Herb says.
To learn how chlorides from road salt deicers are transported in urban watersheds, researchers installed field instruments at eight sites in a Roseville watershed. They monitored water and chloride levels nearly continuously over three winter seasons; this included runoff directly from sources (roads and parking lots), transport in ditches and sewer networks, and retention in and release from detention ponds and wetlands. Computer modeling was used to generalize results.
Overall, the team observed substantial chloride retention via infiltration to soils and groundwater. For example, monitoring the runoff from a vegetated highway ditch showed that more than 95 percent of the chloride applied to the highway infiltrated from the ditch into the soil, and less than 5 percent was exported from the site in surface runoff. "Interestingly, substantial chloride export from the ditch was observed in November rainfall runoff prior to application of any new road salt for the upcoming winter, suggesting long-term storage in soils and groundwater in and near the ditch," Herb says.
Researchers also found that winter rain-on-snow events and the first major prolonged thaw each season moved surface chlorides most effectively into the watershed.
The research team then used the data and modeling to examine potential strategies for reducing or mitigating the spread of chloride, including capturing low flows, seasonal runoff capture, and capture based on salinity.
Wayne Sandberg, deputy director of the Washington County Department of Public Works, chaired the study's technical advisory panel. "Based on this research, we now know that deicer chemicals are staying in the soil and moving in the watersheds, and this should change how we manage ice and snow control," he says. "The next questions are what can we do with that knowledge and what changes can we make."
The research was funded by the Minnesota Local Road Research Board and the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
Research project page


I have three questions to ask here.
Why does Guddu Dhanoa make films? Does he have to much of money to squander? When you know the film is going to become a flop, why make it in the first place.
Why do Bollywood mainstream actors like Sunny Deol and Priyanka Chopra work in such films? Mr. Sunny Deol how many more attempts do you want to make at playing India's He-Man? And Priyanka, for God's sake…. why do such films. Are you determined at ruining your illlustrous career?
And Lastly, does anybody watch fillms like Big-Brother? If yes do contact me. I will reccomend a good physiciatrist.
Ok. I know it's wrong to dismiss a movie before it's release. After all it might well become this year's Gadar. You can never say never when Sunny Paaji is there in a film. But please "Big Brother".
Here's the theatrical trailer of "Big Brother". Surely it reaffirms my faith in the above three questions. The trailer makes Big Brother look like a comedy. It's an action film right? What are these lines: "Big Brother is not born but made". Oh common I just feel like laughing myself out watching this cliched trailer. And pray who is the female who has given the voice-over for the trailer, she put's Sunny Deol to shame with her hysterical screeching.
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Visiting New York – Rockefeller Centre
Rockefeller Centre is one of the most exciting places to visit in New York City, it is probably one of the first things you will want to see upon your arrival from your direct flight to New York. This area that is located right in the middle of midtown Manhattan is over 22 acres, which includes 19 large buildings. The area is named after a man named John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who developed this land when he purchased it back in the early 1900's. Because this area was developed in the time of the great depression, it provided many jobs for those who were out of work.
New business and buildings begin to flood the area in the 1930's. In 1932 the Radio City Music Hall was constructed. Visiting this area today, one can still visit the famous opulent theatre. This theatre seats 6,000 people and its art deco style has been preserved. The beginning days of the theatre were slow, but eventually became a happen spot. The hall was made a landmark of the city in 1978 and since then it has become an icon of the area.
The GE Building otherwise known as the RCA Building is another landmark of the area. This fabulous art deco style building was constructed in the late 1930's. With 70 floors of offices and shops, this building is a frequented hot spot. What is more perfect than an ice-skating rink in the bottom level? Those visiting NYC love to take advantage of an indoor skating facility. The building is also called 30 Rock, which is the same name that was given to a famous television show.
The most famous location in Rockefeller centre is an area known as "Times Square Studios", which hosts "NBC Studios". There are many popular television shows produced here, such as the "Today Show". Many people gather every day to catch a glimpse of famous news stars from the "Today Show" because they have been a part of American history since 1952. Famous music stars and other Hollywood famous join the popular hosts and it is all done right in the middle of this famous area.
Many say that traveling to this centre in Christmas time is best, due to the festivities and the famous Christmas tree. Other famous things to see in this area include Christie's Auction House, which has been frequented on shows like the "Antique Roadshow". Studio 8H in the RCA Exhibition Hall holds the famous set of "Saturday Night Live".
There is so much to see and do in this area that preparation is key. Bring along maps and make sure to have an itinerary because with this much to see one does not want to miss a thing.
Largest Amusement & Waterpark In The Midwest
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Fact-Checking the Court Order on Lowell High School
Over the next week, the SFUSD Board of Education will be taking action to respond to a recent Court decision regarding Resolution 212–2A1 In Response to Ongoing, Pervasive Systemic Racism at Lowell High School (commonly referred to as the "Lowell Resolution").
In accordance with this order, Superintendent Matthews will introduce a resolution for first reading on Dec. 7, 2021, that recommends SFUSD utilize the same admissions policy for Lowell for the 2022–23 school year as it did for the current school year.
On February 9, 2021, the Board adopted the Lowell Resolution, which calls on the District to take immediate action to address ongoing concerns about the discriminatory culture at Lowell High School and more generally in the District.
The resolution established a community action committee to support a district-wide Equity Audit. In order to conduct this work, it established a partnership with the Education and Civil Rights Initiative at the University of Kentucky. The resolution also made changes to Lowell's selective enrollment process.
Opponents of the resolution filed a lawsuit to block its implementation. Nonetheless, the District prevailed. The Court affirmed the District's authority to take all actions outlined in the resolution, including actions taken to change admissions policies, despite any technicality related to the prior posting of Board meeting agendas.
A little context
Folks behind the lawsuit have been working hard to push a false narrative about the court decision, and how the Board should move forward. Many of the same people are behind the efforts to recall the Board. They are very organized and well funded and have help from some in the media and also misinformation campaign specialists.
As a result, many families have reached out in recent days to share concerns about necessary actions the Board will take to move forward on admission next year.
I appreciate the public's interest in this important topic. So, in support of the community and the District's commitment to safe and inclusive schools, I have posted a link to the entire Court Order below as well as a helpful summary of key legal issues, written by NAACP attorney Peter Cohn. Mr. Cohn is not only a recognized legal expert but also has personal experience with prior litigation surrounding the 1978 SF NAACP desegregation lawsuit and 1983 settlement known as the Consent Decree. Some of the very same people behind the latest lawsuit have also contributed to segregationist attitudes and policies that led us to this place.
The most diverse class in decades
Lastly, I would be remiss if I did not specifically acknowledge the Black and Latinx communities for their valuable contributions to Lowell High School, and recognize the wonderful new students and families who were able to enroll this year as a result of opening up Lowell's admission policy. Data on freshmen enrollment shows it is one of the most diverse entering classes Lowell has ever seen.
Whether students choose to apply to Lowell High School or any one of SFUSD's amazing options, I believe our focus should be on students. I look forward to the results of the Equity Audit and am committed to ensuring all students have access to welcoming, safe and enriching learning environments, wherever they go to high school.
SFNAACP Branch and NAACP support for the SF Board of Education to adopt Superintendent Matthew's New Resolution for Lowell High School admissions for the 2022–2023 School Year
Good afternoon, President Lopez and Commissioners of the San Francisco Board of Education,
Both the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the San Francisco NAACP (SFNAACP) have often been called upon and compelled to correct false narratives whether they are at the national or local levels. We have certainly all seen the profound damage that the big lie at the national level — the Trumpian false and unfounded view that the presidential election was stolen from him — has caused to all the people of our nation in the course of the January 6, 2021 deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and its aftermath. It has torn apart families and communities and is seeking to undermine voting rights at the federal, state and local levels.
In much the same way, the SFNAACP and our community of goodwill in San Francisco now calls upon the San Francisco Board of Education to not permit local false narratives in the media and elsewhere to go unanswered and be projected in the San Francisco Unified School District, which can predictably cause harm to our children, families and larger community. The false narrative is that the Petitioners in the Brown Act case of Friends of Lowell Foundation, Lowell Alumni Association and Asian American Legal Foundation had fully prevailed on November 18, 2021, in its State Court action against the San Francisco Board of Education; SFUSD; Superintendent Matthews; et al. The truth is that the Petitioners had not fully prevailed against the Board and SFUSD Respondents and had not obtained the wide-ranging relief that they sought.
The best evidence of the local false narrative can easily be established by simply reading Judge Ethan Shulman's November 18, 2021 SF Superior Court Order "Granting In Part the Petition for Writ of Mandate and Related Relief" which is attached to this message. (See link below.)
Friends of Lowell Foundation, Lowell Alumni Association, Asian American Legal Foundation v SFUSD, Vincent Matthews Lawsuit
In any fair reading of the Judge's order granting only in part the Petition for Writ of Mandate and contrary to the SF Chronicle and other media reporting, the Judge did not re-establish any particular student admissions policy for Lowell going forward nor did he overturn any of the good work of the SFNAACP and the National NAACP related to the University of Kentucky's contract and its related Equity Audit for Lowell High School.
On Page 7 of the Order, Judge Schulman made clear the exact broad relief that the Petitioners — Friends of Lowell Foundation, Lowell Alumni Association and Asian American Legal Foundation — were specifically seeking and he stated it in the following manner: "1) rescinding the Resolution; 2) returning Lowell to its prior status as an academic high school with merit-based admissions; 3) terminating the District's contracts with the University of Kentucky; and 4) terminating the Equity Audit Committee."
While the Judge did find that there was a Brown Act (Open Meeting law) violation in enacting SF Board of Education Resolution 212–2A1, he did not go beyond that partial ruling of holding the resolution itself to be null and void. The Judge specifically denied the Petitioners request: 2) to return Lowell to its prior status as an academic high school with merit-based admissions (Pages 10–11) because the Board can cure or correct its Brown Act Violation; 3) to terminate the District's University of Kentucky Contract with the College of Education Civil Rights Initiative (Pages 11–12) because that contract was properly noticed in the June 22, 2021 agenda and it was a contract let by competitive bid "upon which a party has, in good faith and without notice of a challenge to the validity of the action, detrimentally relied"; and 4) to terminate the Equity Audit Committee (Pages 13–14) because it too had subsequently been properly noticed and formed not only at the Board's September 21, 2021 meeting but also in its earlier meetings on May 12th and 19th of 2021 and petitioners provided the Court with no legal authority to terminate it. Normally, when parties lose on the major relief that they sought, it is a false narrative to assert that they fully prevailed. Here, they clearly did not.
Very importantly and the SFNAACP encourages the San Francisco Board of Education and District to appreciate, the Court gave the SF School Board a straightforward and simple path to cure its Brown Act violation and to revisit the question of its student assignment policy with respect to Lowell High School. Judge Schulman stated: "Respondent Board shall, within 30 days, file a return showing that it has complied with the writ" (Page 14).
The Court has basically completed its work and that of the SFUSD regarding Resolution №212–2A1. No further action on that resolution is needed because it has been fully resolved by the order of the court as set forth above. The Court did not require the Board to resubmit the February 9, 2021 resolution. Like many other courts that choose not to manage or run school districts, the Court here specifically declined to directly order the Board to restore any specific assignment plan for Lowell (Pages 10–11). Therefore, the Board is free to fully exercise its discretion with respect to Lowell admissions as long as it is done in full compliance with the Brown Act.
The San Francisco Board of Education now needs only to advise the Court within the 30 day period that the earlier resolution has been set aside — as the Court has directed — and that it plans to fully comply with the Court's order by giving proper Brown Act notice for a new resolution regarding Lowell High School admissions. The Superintendent's new resolution can affirm that the prior resolution was set aside by order of the Court and it is the Board's intention to fully comply with the court order by proceeding with a new properly noticed resolution. The best evidence of that is the December 1, 2021 SFUSD Press Release announcing Superintendent Matthew's and the Board's plans to introduce a new resolution on December 7, 2021 recommending that the SFUSD utilize the same admissions policy for Lowell for the 2022–2023 school year as it did for the current school year and that there will be a final vote on the new resolution at a special meeting on December 16, 2021. In addition to the SFUSD Press Release, the Board should also include the number and language of the new resolution. This is exactly what the Court wanted and ordered. The Court unequivocally left the policy decision around Lowell admissions to the sound discretion of the School Board and District and did not require anything more.
Lastly, both the SFNAACP and national NAACP respectfully submit that the best and most constructive way forward for the San Francisco Board of Education and the SFUSD is to not go backward in promoting the above false local narrative or letting it further cause conflict within our community but to go forward in implementing the Superintendent's new proposed resolution with full Brown Act compliance for the benefit of all the school children of San Francisco.
With every best wish,
Attorney Peter Cohn
SFNAACP Branch Counsel
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Opening at 11 a.m. Easter Sunday
OAK BROOK, IL, March 23, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ — Celebrate Easter Sunday and April Fool's Day as well, with a Sunday Supper special at Perry's Steakhouse & Grille (5 Oakbrook Court, Oak Brook, IL 60523; 630-571-1808). "Easter Sunday is a time for families to celebrate together with great food," says Chris Perry, owner of Perry's Steakhouse & Grille. "We're pleased to give our guests the opportunity to dine with us after church or for dinner."
In honor of the holiday on April 1st, Perry's Steakhouse & Grille will open early at 11 a.m., serving its dinner menu throughout the day and evening. In addition, Perry's will be offering a special Sunday three-course meal from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. for $34.95 a person.
The special Easter menu consists of a three-course menu: a salad, Perry's Famous Pork Chop and the dessert trio, making it the perfect meal for ending Lenten fasts.
To start, choose between the Wedge Salad, Spinach & Warm Bacon Vinaigrette Salad, Caesar Salad, Butcher's Chop Salad with Perry's famous homemade Italian dressing, Kale Salad with Jalapeño Mint Vinaigrette or the Field Green, Pear & Candied Pecan Salad.
Move onto the main course, Perry's Famous Pork Chop. A mouth-watering prime chop measuring seven fingers high as an ode to the measuring system used by butchers back in the day, the pork chop is sourced from choice Midwestern farms and butchered in house from the pork loin. Once cut, it's rubbed with proprietary seasoning, cured and roasted on a rotisserie with pecan wood for up to six hours until it's sweet, smoky and sizzling. Upon order, the chop is glazed, caramelized, topped with Perry's signature herb-garlic butter and carved tableside. The pork chop is plated as three portions: the "eyelash" (the most marbled, tender, melt-in-your-mouth section above the eye of the chop), three baby-back ribs and the center-cut loin for the ultimate comforting indulgence.
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Zalgiris Kaunas sent a message that echoed all around the competition by downing Anadolu Efes Istanbul 71-84 on the road on Tuesday. Zalgiris improved to 5-8 and recorded its second road win in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague regular season, while Efes dropped to 6-7. Kevin Pangos led the winners with 15 points on 5-of-6 three-point shooting. Edgaras Ulanovas added 14 on 5-of-5 two-point shooting, while Brock Motum scored 11 for Zalgiris. Thomas Heurtel led Efes with 18 points, Derrick Brown added 16 and Tyler Honeycutt had 12 for the hosts. Zalgiris found good options on offense throughout the first half, hitting 17 of 20 two-point shots (85%) and outrebounding Efes 7-18. As many as 10 Zalgiris players scored in the first half, helping their team get a 14-point lead, 30-44. Despite committing 16 turnovers, Zalgiris kept powering the boards and kept a double-digit lead all the way until the final buzzer.
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23-gauge versus 20-gauge system for pars plana vitrectomy: a prospective randomised clinical trial
Authors' Response
Susanne Binder
Comments on 23-gauge versus 20-gauge system for pars plana vitrectomy
Anshuman Sinha
Susanne Binder, Professor and Head of the Department of Ophthalmology
Other Contributors:
Barbara Wimpissinger, Lukas Kellner, Werner Brannath, Katharina Krepler, Ulrike Stolba, Christian Mihalics.
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We would like to give a response to the letter of Dr. Anshuman Sinha concerning our article "23 Gauge versus 20 Gauge System for Pars Plana Vitrectomy: A Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial".
For analysis of postoperative pain we used a simplified verbal rating scale (ranging from 0, meaning no pain, to 3, meaning severe pain). The standardized verbal rating scale reaches from 0 (no pain) to...
For analysis of postoperative pain we used a simplified verbal rating scale (ranging from 0, meaning no pain, to 3, meaning severe pain). The standardized verbal rating scale reaches from 0 (no pain) to 10 ("the worst pain possible"), which we think is too extensive for our patients and purpose. In literature verbal rating scales are described to be a valid, reliable and appropriate tool for determination of postoperative pain in clinical practice [1,2] Furthermore we believe that the assessment of postoperative pain is not likely to be biased if the assessor is not masked, because the perception of pain is a completely subjective parameter.
Regarding the sample size evaluation: The effect size was assumed to be 75% of the standard deviation and the power to be 80%. These assumptions were extrapolated from the observations of our previous study [3]. Unfortunately, this information had been dropped from a previous version of the manuscript for brevity.
It is well known that studies with single surgeons have better results than with multiple surgeons. On the other hand, it is recommended to choose a realistic situation to achieve more realistic results. Our surgeons were randomized and there was a general surgical protocol to be followed. This also is the reason why we used two different vitrectomy machines. Both of them work in a comparable way and the settings were preset and the same in both machines. We agree, that the lens status has an influence on the amount of vitreous removed and that an intraocular tamponade influences postoperative eye pressure. However, both factors were equally distributed in both surgical groups and therefore have no influence on the results. Concerning the way of suturing the 20 gauge wounds, this was done the same way in all patients using vicryl 7.0 sutures as described in the methods section.
A summary of nominal categorical data would have to be done by contingency tables and neither by mean nor by median and interquartile range. Since the data mentioned are not of nominal but ordinal nature, we assume that the author of this letter refers to ordinal data. We have to note that the summary presented in table 2 was done for the area under the curve (AUC) for the conjunctival injection and postoperative pain measured at days 0, 1, 2, 3, one week, one month and three months after surgery as indicated in figures 1 and 2. Although theses measurements are, strictly speaking, still of ordinal nature they have a large range of values (see table 2) and hence can be treated as metric variables. Moreover, it is common practice to summarize AUCs by mean and standard deviation. We also note that in a previous version of the paper we have given in addition to the mean and standard deviation also the median, first and third quartile. Unfortunately, these numbers as well as the information in the text that the AUCs are summarized have been omitted in the edited manuscript.
We furthermore agree that each complication represents a serious situation. However, from the data of our study we can not conclude that a clear indication for higher risk is given using 23 gauge vitrectomy. This question remains open and a larger prospective randomized study is needed to get a clear result of the safety of 23 gauge surgery. Since the data do not indicate a difference in the development of serious complications between the two treatment groups we made the cited careful assertion "seems to be a safe system".
Regarding the Consolidated Standards for Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement [4], we certainly know and appreciate this publication and followed these recommendations. Moreover, our article represents the only prospective randomized study concerning this topic. We do appreciate your considerations, but we strongly believe that we have performed a well-designed study. Still, there are always things that can be improved.
1.Williamson A, Hoggart B. Pain: a review of three commonly used pain rating scales. J Clin Nurs. 2005 Aug;14(7):798-804.
2.Randall C. Cork, Ihab Isaac, Ahmad Elsharydah, Sarosh Saleemi, Frank Zavisca and Lori Alexander: A comparison of the verbal rating scale and the visual analog scale for pain assessment. The Internet Journal of Anesthesiology. 2004: Volume 8, Number1.
3.Kellner L, Wimpissinger B, Stolba U, Brannath W, Binder S. 25-gauge vs 20-gauge system for pars plana vitrectomy: a prospective randomised clinical trial. Br J Ophthalmol. 2007 Jul;91(7):945-8.
4.Moher D, Schulz KF, Altman DG. The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel-group randomised trials. Lancet 2001;357:1191-4.
Conflict of Interest:
Anshuman Sinha, Fellow - Retina & Vitreous
Ritesh Narula, Raja Narayanan
We read with interest the paper by Wimpissinger et al comparing sutureless 23-gauge system to a standard 20-gauge system for pars plana vitrectomy, in a randomized clinical trial.[1] We aim to highlight a few issues in the design, methodology and analysis.
The authors have analysed postoperative pain and conjunctival injection as primary outcome measures. The effort by the assessor to elicit a...
The authors have analysed postoperative pain and conjunctival injection as primary outcome measures. The effort by the assessor to elicit a response on the degree of pain is likely to be biased if he is not masked, as in this study. In assessment, the authors have used descriptive terms like no pain, mild, moderate and severe pain. The authors could have used other standardized methods described to measure pain such as numerical scores, faces scale, visual analogue scales and multidimensional instruments like various questionnaires. Literature in Ophthalmology has precedence of using a visual analogue scale for assessment of pain.[2]
The authors determined the sample size by statistical pre-study evaluation (by two group t-test with a 0.05 two-sided significance level). Since the authors have not provided data on effect size (delta), and power (1-beta), it is not clear how a sample size of 60 with 30 patients in each arm was arrived at.
The other confounding variable likely to be of significance are the issues like randomization of 4 surgeons (instead of preferably single surgeon), use of different machines for 20Ga and 23Ga surgeries, unspecified cut rates for 20Ga system (likely to influence time of vitrectomy), the lens status (likely to influence the extent of vitrectomy possible and aimed at), type of tamponade (likely to influence postoperative intraocular pressures) and suturing technique of conjunctiva (likely to influence subjective pain) after 20Ga surgery.
In analysis, nominal type of categorical data (as used for assessing postoperative pain and conjunctival injection) would have been better analysed in terms of median and interquartile range rather than taking their minimum, maximum and average values.
The authors have concluded that "The 23 gauge system seems to be a safe system suitable for a broad spectrum of vitreoretinal diseases". We disagree with this conclusion as the data provided shows that 3 (10%, 95% CI -0.74 to 20.74%) patients developed serious complications, 2 of whom required re-surgery.[1]
An international group developed the Consolidated Standards for Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement in an attempt to improve documented suboptimal reporting of RCTs.[3] In an attempt to further improve the reporting of RCTs, the same international group published the revised CONSORT statement in 2001 which outlined a checklist of 22 items.[4]
1. B Wimpissinger, L Kellner, W Brannath, K Krepler, U Stolba, C Mihalics and S Binder. 23-gauge versus 20-gauge system for pars plana vitrectomy: a prospective randomised clinical trial. Br J Ophthalmol 2008; 92; 1483-1487.
2. Mathew MR, Williams A, Esakowitz L, Webb LA, Murray SB, Bennett HG. Patient comfort during clear corneal phacoemulsification with sub- Tenon's local anesthesia. J Cataract Refract Surg 2003 ; 29(6): 1132-6.
3. Begg C, Cho M, Eastwood S, et al. Improving the quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials. The CONSORT statement. JAMA 1996;276:637-9.
4. Moher D, Schulz KF, Altman DG. The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel-group randomised trials. Lancet 2001;357:1191-4.


Controversial multi millionaire and leading figure in Morden day Christian circles, Uebert Angel's secret to riches has finally been exposed.
He is rumoured to be connected to the richest family in the world, the controversial Rothschild family which was first linked to the illuminati in 1972 after Leaked photos from their exclusive parties revealed guests such as Salvador Dali and Audrey Hepburn dressed in elaborate, surrealist garb. Mrs. Rothschild herself greeted guests in a white gown and stag's head with diamond tears.
In a photo Uebert Angel tried with everything in him to prevent from reaching the public, he is seen being all cozy with Nat Rothschilds a billionaire in his own right and also heir to the Rothschilds family's vast wealth. The Rothschilds are estimated to be worth over $10trillion as a family.
We have it that Uebert Angel pictured here with Nathaniel Phillip Rothschild at one of their many meetings is believed to be worth over $60million according to Forbes Magazine article of 2013.
The shrewd property tycoon and preacher's wealth has long been a reason for many to think that he has profited from the church but investigators of his secret wealth have given his illuminati connections as his main secret with vast capitol to his construction company coming from none other than Nat Rothschilds, a fact which he had managed to keep under wraps until now.
Angel recently bought a multi million dollar mansion in Britain in a 'cash buyer' gated community for millionaires close to the award winning Lincoln Golf club were members of this highly secretive society are rumoured to meet regularly.
Spokesperson for the elusive Angel man declined to comment on the story when our reporters wanted to get their side of the story and further attempts to make contact were received by a busy tone.
Names of Christian leaders that have been linked to the illuminati in the past range from Benny Hinn to Td Jakes.
have you guys just run out stories to tell, hapana chinobatika chamataura….tipei nyaya dzine umbowo uzere mhani!
how far true is this, your storry sounds half baked.
can we just have better stories to build Zim, even if Angel networks with the rich and gives in to the nation then the better!! lets be positive mhani!!
if he networks with the rich its actually good for our new zimbabwe, leave angel alone toda nyika iende mberi plus you guys your story remains so empty hakuna editor akadai!
these guys are just funny, the way you write about such a man of God apa muchinyepa sooo aaryas!


Bryan Litz has produced an informative new video on the subject of bullet stability. The video explains how stability is related to spin rate (or RPM), and how RPM, in turn, is determined by barrel twist rate and velocity. For long-range shooting, it is important that a barrel have a fast-enough twist rate to stabilize the bullet over its entire trajectory.
Top photo with bullet by Werner Mehl, www.kurzzeit.com, all rights reserved.
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I see the calculations start with BC. Since NC varies with velocity wouldn't it be better to ask for the drag factor? I could be way off on that one but isn't a constant more desirable than a variable in most cases?
NC=BC Goony finger at work . . .
Hm…Seems whether you select G1 or G7 the SG come out the same.
I input a set of data including .970 for the BC and got a result. I then noted that the button was set for G7 when the .970 BC value was a G1. I cleared the screen back to the base .308 projectile, re-input the values to match the prior setup but with the BC value set for a G1 and reran the number. Same SG.
This article implies way more(and different) than Bryan said.
Stability does not come from turns per time, it comes from displacement per turn minus other moments to overcome.
Drag is tied to velocity, but this has nothing to do with RPMs. So any RPM correlations to stability will fail tests.
BC is not a factor in determining stability (SG). The reason for inputting BC is so you can see what the BC degrades to if the bullet is not fully stabilized. If your parameters result in full stability (SG>1.5) then the BC you input will be unchanged. But if the SG is below 1.5, the BC begins to be affected and the Berger Stability calculator shows you how much.
Stability calculations and the discussions surrounding them can get very complicated very fast. Typically, you want to consider inches per turn (or turns per some distance) because that measure is most closely related to stability (although it's not directly proportional due to aerodynamics at different Mach numbers…) However, if you talk about RPM's at a certain fps (both time based rates) then you can do some converstions and get to Revs per foot, and revs per inch/inches per rev. They're just different ways to do the math; one is more direct and intuitive but the other (RPM's and fps) isn't 'wrong', just less direct.
For those interested in an in-depth exploration of stability and its effects on BC in both supersonic and transonic flight, check out: Modern Advancements in Long Range Shooting-Volume 1. This book presents all the live fire data that supports the link between stability and BC.
If you imagine this is a Dasher bullet launched at 3000 fps, then it spins at 180K rpm in a 1:12″ twist barrel vs. 270K rpm in a 1:8″ twist barrel. That should be understandable.